More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 71

Then cast me into this pool and I will be turned back into a mother-naked man.

Who acts: you · What happens: cast, turn back · To what, where: me, pool, I

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 cast	advmod
2	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 cast	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 pool	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 pool	det
6	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cast	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 turned	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 turned	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 turned	aux:pass
11	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cast	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 turned	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	18 man	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 naked	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 mother	punct
17	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	imperative	you not said here	me		this pool	then		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent i=Material into pool=Product
2	turn back	future · passive		I				into a naked man	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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